Giving Back

Employee-driven giving

We believe it's important to support the communities where we live and work, and we believe our employees are best suited to know where those needs are. We match charitable contributions for employees up to $5,000 annually.

Supporting our communities

In addition to our employee-directed donations, we support multiple programs in our communities including community revitalization and safety efforts, healthcare research and disaster relief efforts among others.

Financial education

Financial education is not just closely aligned to our business; we have a vested interest in creating a more inclusive financial system, educating the next generation of investors and entrepreneurs and empowering people to take control of their financial well-being.

Financial education

Financial education is the cornerstone of our charitable efforts. It's not just closely aligned to our business; we have a vested interest in creating a more inclusive financial system, educating the next generation of investors and entrepreneurs and empowering people to take control of their financial well-being. Here are some of the financial education programs we support.

NYSE Future Investors Program

Designing financial curriculum for sustained impact

The NYSE Future Investors program includes three sets of curricula: financial education basics for grade school students, advanced instruction on investing and markets for high school students and data science knowledge and skills for high school students. During each school year more than 5,000 students receive access to financial and data sciences education under this program.

Grade school financial education

Financial education for grade school students focuses on foundational understanding of financial concepts. A baseline knowledge of how money works and how to use it sets students up for success as they learn about more complicated concepts in the future.

High school investment and markets education

This program takes students beyond individual financial decisions to introduce them to larger economic and market concepts. Students learn about individual investing and how their future investments impact, and are impacted by, the larger economy.

After completing the course, more students report feeling prepared to understand how the economy impacts them personally, how to decide when to invest and report feeling better prepared to accomplish long-term financial goals in their adult lives.

Data science knowledge and skills

This program familiarizes students with a variety of modern data techniques and their applications. This curriculum is also a resource to help close the gender gap in data sciences. After taking this course, a greater percentage of female students showed increased interest in data visualization, predictive analytics and data mining.

Young Money

Creating financially capable communities

The Centers of Excellence award is a nationally recognized award which accredits education providers across the U.K. for excellence in delivering financial education. Young Money is committed to helping education providers bring practical, effective and sustainable financial education to young people.

Young Money provides a center-wide improvement framework with one-on-one advice from an expert education consultant. The program is tailored to the individual needs of each center. Young people are placed firmly at the heart of the program, and their needs and interests drive and underpin the teaching of high-quality financial education.

Nearly 15,000 students have been reached by the program due to ICE's funding.

India Financial Literacy Program

Targeting key transition years in young people’s academic and social development

ICE helped launch a three-year financial literacy program in India, available to junior college students at no cost to the students or school. The program aims to help students understand the importance of money, how to manage it, concepts of budgeting and saving and thus empower them to make informed choices.

The activities under this program are meant to build awareness and provide necessary skills for application in day-to-day life as well as prepare students to take the National Financial Literacy assessment test. The program reaches more than 8,000 students per year.

Westside Future Fund

How a world-class city embraces growth and prosperity

Why the Westside?

Four neighborhoods make up Atlanta’s historic Westside – Vine City, English Avenue, Ashview Heights and Atlanta University Center. They also define the Westside Future Fund’s boundaries and are the focus of its mission: to organize and fuel Westside revitalization efforts so the area may grow, and its residents succeed. The Westside Future Fund advances its mission by connecting resources with needs; convening the right people around the table; collaborating on strategies; and coordinating all these efforts, which are vital to the Westside's long-term success.

The Westside is comprised of some of Atlanta’s most challenged neighborhoods. It is also the birthplace of the American Civil Rights movement. Iconic civil rights leaders like Ambassador Andrew Young grew up in this area and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself chose to raise his family here. Today, 52% of Westside residents live below the poverty line, only 79% read above the third-grade level, and 40% of all housing is vacant.

What does the Westside Future Fund focus on?

Mixed – Income Housing & Resident Retention: Encouraging equitable community development while ensuring that current residents can remain on the Westside as land becomes more valuable and the area undergoes socioeconomic shift seen elsewhere in Atlanta’s downtown neighborhoods.
Health & Wellness: Working alongside medical organizations and health and wellness practitioners to increase access to healthcare and improve health outcomes for residents.
Cradle-to-Career Education: Which includes a focus on early childhood education and a unique partnership with Atlanta Public Schools’ Hollis Innovation Academy. There, WFF’s support ensures a very low teacher-to-student ratio and wrap-around family support services. WFF also provides training for adults to access living wage jobs.
Safety & Security: Supporting initiatives to increase safety and security on the Westside and mitigating social factors that affect the crime rate.

Why does it matter?

By working together we all gain a louder voice, clearer path, and a more successful future. But most of all, the Westside Future Fund is helping figure out ways to change what sometimes feels like a pre-determined future. Without coordination, capital, and a concerted effort to address serious community needs like education, public services and affordable housing, the Westside will go the way of other historic Atlanta neighborhoods – toward unchecked gentrification, top-dollar development, and dramatic socioeconomic shift. The Westside’s residents, especially those who rent at low cost, will lose their homes. History will lose its grip on a pivotal landmark in the story of American civil rights. And Atlanta will lose its last, best opportunity to show everyone how a world-class city embraces growth, prosperity and population boom.

For more information on what the Westside Future Fund is doing, go to westsidefuturefund.org.

Source: Westside Future Fund

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Giving Back at ICE

Supporting the communities where we live and work

Employee-driven giving

Supporting our communities

Financial education

Financial education

NYSE Future Investors Program

Young Money

India Financial Literacy Program

Westside Future Fund

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